There’s nothing quite like the comfort of a bowl of pasta to make you feel like everything is okay in the world.
A recent study has scientifically proven that the dish increases happiness and can boost your mood!
The “Behavioral & Brain Lab” at Italy’s Free University of Languages and Communications IULM revealed some interesting things about how human beings respond emotionally and neurophysiological to eating pasta.
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The study unveiled that eating pasta activates a strong and sustained emotional-cognitive state similar to listening to music or watching sports, even surpassing those.
Professor Vincenzo Russo said that the ‘taste alone stimulates positive memories and emotions’.
40% of participants in the study said they consider pasta to be a comfort food and 76% said that eating the dish increases happiness, which the science supports.
“It’s proven that complex carbohydrates stimulate endorphins, which help absorb the tryptophan and B vitamins present in pasta. Tryptophan helps regulate mood and B vitamins relax muscles while producing serotonin” Food Beast reports.
As if we needed any more reasons to eat pasta…
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